Borrowing Computing Power

[Derek Broughton]

das wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 18:03 +0200, Cedric wrote:
>> It's possible to use your laptop to help while compiling a project.
>> See here
>> for details:
>> http://distcc.samba.org/
>> 
> 
> Thank you, but, that was for compiling jobs only. Can it be done for any
> job? As if the desktop would now become an extended system, with the
> resources of the laptop added to it. Like, when I mount the laptop (did
> it one time on SuSE with fuse and sshfs) on a particular mount point,
> the HD space gets added up, can it be done for the resources too?

The short answer is "yes".  The much longer answer is "not really" :-)

BOINC shares many home computers for scientific projects, but it requires
the application to be written specifically to use BOINC.

Google for "Linux grid computing".  There's a lot of work being done, but I
don't know that any of it is useful in the way you want, yet.
-- 
derek